Im not sure if this is the right place for this thread, but does anybody know how much a decent paint job would cost for a 98 ext cab long bed?

 

If no body work is involved and you use regular paint, I'd say around $2500. If you add body work and fancy paint, that's where the expense comes in.

 

Wow thats a little more than I was hoping

 

They have to prep the surface to accept new paint, biggest part of the job, and the most expensive. If they slapped on a new coat, and didn't prep it like Maaco does, be around $500. Paint is cheap, the labor is what bites you in the ***.

 

Even a Maaco 2 stage job is $1500 now, yeah you can get the cheap 1 stage paint for under 1k but it will last if your lucky 2 years. I was quoted 4k for my dually but when this guy is done it will look way better and straighter than new.

 

depends on color. I was quoted 1100 to paint mine white

 

mine does need a little body work and it defenatly depends on the color reds and any thing with metalic in it usually cost more. i think my paint is somewere around $300 a gallon and its a factory dodge color.

 

O yea I guess that makes sense. I figured they could just spray on the new paint thats why 2500 sounded a little over the top to me

 

I dont want anything fancy I was just going to get a dark blue. The truck im looking at has a really bad two tone green paint thing going on an I need to fix that

 

Call up a few body shops and get a quote.